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Ripple Rock is an underwater mountain that had two peaks (9 feet and 21 feet below the surface) in the Seymour Narrows of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia, Canada, a part of the marine trade route from Vancouver and coastal points north. [1]

26 relations: Atomic Weapons Establishment, British Columbia, Bute Inlet, Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada, Discovery Passage, Dolmage and Mason Consulting Engineers, Events of National Historic Significance, George Vancouver, Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions, National Research Council (Canada), Nitramex and Nitramon Explosives, Paddle steamer, Ripple Rock (album), Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Severouralsk, Seymour Narrows, Slack water, Standing wave, Stu Davis, The Evaporators, The National Archives (United Kingdom), United Kingdom, USS Saranac (1848), Vancouver, Vancouver Island.

Atomic Weapons Establishment

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Bute Inlet

Bute Inlet is one of the principal inlets of the British Columbia Coast.

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Campbell River, British Columbia

Campbell River or Wiwek̓a̱m is a coastal city in British Columbia on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies along the important coastal Inside Passage shipping route.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Discovery Passage

Discovery Passage (passage Discovery) is a channel that forms part of the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands which lie off the British Columbia coast north of the Georgia Strait.

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Dolmage and Mason Consulting Engineers

Dolmage and Mason Consulting Engineers was an engineering consultancy based in Vancouver.

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Events of National Historic Significance

Events of National Historic Significance (also called National Historic Events) (Les événements d'importance historique nationale) are events that have been designated by Canada's Minister of the Environment, on the advice of the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board, as being defining actions, episodes, movements or experiences in Canadian history.

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George Vancouver

Captain George Vancouver (22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798) was a British officer of the Royal Navy, best known for his 1791–95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.

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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions

There have been many extremely large explosions, accidental and intentional, caused by modern high explosives, boiling liquid expanding vapour explosions (BLEVEs), older explosives such as gunpowder, volatile petroleum-based fuels such as petrol, and other chemical reactions.

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National Research Council (Canada)

The National Research Council (NRC, Conseil national de recherches Canada) is the primary national research and technology organization (RTO) of the Government of Canada, in science and technology research and development.

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Nitramex and Nitramon Explosives

Nitramex and Nitramon Explosives are compositions of various chemical compounds.

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Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or riverboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

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Ripple Rock (album)

Ripple Rock is The Evaporators' third album.

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; Gendarmerie royale du Canada (GRC), "Royal Gendarmerie of Canada"; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as "the Force") is the federal and national police force of Canada.

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Severouralsk

Severouralsk (Североура́льск, lit. (a town) in the Northern Urals) is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Vagran River (Ob's basin) at its confluence with the Kolonga River, north of Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of the oblast.

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Seymour Narrows

Seymour Narrows is a section of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia known for strong tidal currents.

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Slack water

Slack water, also known as 'the stand of the tide', is a short period in a body of tidal water when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal stream, and which occurs before the direction of the tidal stream reverses.

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Standing wave

In physics, a standing wave – also known as a stationary wave – is a wave which oscillates in time but whose peak amplitude profile does not move in space.

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Stu Davis

Stu Davis (b. David Stewart July 1, 1921 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; died March 25, 2007 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) was a Canadian singer, songwriter, storyteller and musician.

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The Evaporators

The Evaporators is a Canadian garage rock band formed in 1986 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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USS Saranac (1848)

USS Saranac was a sloop-of-war of the United States Navy.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island is in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_Rock

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